In this, the first of two volumes on the 19th century's "sailing steamships" and the policies that produced them, the author has collated a range of documents, photographs and ship plans. This book provides an account of an era that saw the introduction of steam power and the first iron warships.
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an important missing link,
By Robert Thomas (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Old Steam Navy: Frigates, Sloops and Gunboats, 1815-1855 (Hardcover)
If there is an heir to Chapelle's "History of the American Sailing Navy," it is this book. The format is somewhat similar, but with the inclusion of photos in addition to plans. This book picks up where Chapelle left off, with the early steam ships of the US Navy. These are the ships of fame of the Civil War, on which little good information is avaliable. The steam frigates are covered in detail, as well as the sea going sloops and gunboats. The section on the USS Michigan does not do her justice, nor is there a lot information on the engines of the period, but this book is an important missing link in US warship design history from the USS Constellation to the steel hulled ships of the Great White Fleet. Well worth the purchase price to a person interested in period naval archecture, as is VOL II, The Ironclads, and his book on Revenue Cutters.
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This review is from: The Old Steam Navy: Frigates, Sloops and Gunboats, 1815-1855 (Hardcover)
A readable history of the U.S.Navy's transition from iron men and wooden ships to wooden men and Iron ships, with procurement fiascos equal to any today...... Say to say that the U.S.S. Hartford, of New Orleans and Mobile Bay fame, survived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard untill 1959, then sank at her moorings and was finally scrapped....UGH!
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